At 02:52 AM 5/15/2009, you wrote:
>getChildByName searches the parent for a match with a child's .name >property. A child's id property is not always the name and is a >document reference (the outermost tag in the MXML file) so a parent >won't always have a child with the name of the child's id. > > > >Usually in a script block, because the scope is the document, you >just reference the id like it is a variable or property. You don't >need getChildByName > > > >Alex Harui > >Flex SDK Developer > ><http://www.adobe.com/>Adobe Systems Inc. > >Blog: <http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui>http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui Is it bad practice to store all the children you create in an array? Because that's what I wound up doing -- stored them in an array as I created them, so I can loop thru them that way instead of using the getChildByName or any of the getChild methods, as I couldn't get any of them to work properly. Laurence MacNeill Mableton, Georgia, USA
